Reason #758 to hate my husband

[Not_Giving_Up]

I've been glued to BBC most of the day. He was watching some of it with me, and made this remark. "What? Is this supposed to be their 9/11? There aren't that many people dead."

I called his mom this morning as soon as I heard, because she generally doesn't have the TV on. She said that she was watching the local CBS affiliate, but that they were showing regular programming and had not cut in. I told her that Tony Blair had returned to London from G8. Her response? "Maybe that summit is why this happened."

[Shell Beau]

1. Wow! How sensitive they are!

Must be tough to deal with that all of the time.

[Not_Giving_Up]

3. Yeah, it's great

My mother in law is a raging repug, but I expected her to show some interest. Her husband called her as soon as he heard it on the radio (he's at work), but didn't feel the need to find out more info.

My husband generally chooses to be blissfully ignorant, but in the rare instance that we converse, I usually attempt to educate him.

[Shell Beau]

7. Well I guess your hubby gets it honestly!

[Not_Giving_Up]

10. Oh, yes!

I never doubted that!

[Misunderestimator]

2. You hate your husband?

Why are you married to him?

[Not_Giving_Up]

6. Yeah, basically

I'm working on that.

[progmom]

4. There has to be a way to get you out of there.

[Not_Giving_Up]

5. We have therapy tonight

I just might lose it.

[Debi]

9. Breath in....breath out.....breath in....breath out...

And please don't kill him (I don't think they'll let you post from the women's penitentiary)

[Not_Giving_Up]

11. I know

Ha! I live in Texas...I'd probably end up on death row.

[kedrys]

15. Either that, or they'd let you go scot-free

After refusing to indict or press charges. Not much gray area on this one...

[Not_Giving_Up]

26. Scot free?

I doubt that would happen!

[Debi]

28. self-defense?

He was killing you slowing from the inside out!

This probably isn't very funny to some people...

[Not_Giving_Up]

29. Well, that is what's happening, I do believe

But I don't think it will get me off.

[kedrys]

13. I think you should

You're waayyy overdue.

[Not_Giving_Up]

17. You think I should what?

Lose it tonight, or go to Huntsville?

[progmom]

18. Lose it.

[Not_Giving_Up]

19. I don't lose it often

Mainly because I don't do it well. If I lose it, I may end up in a psych facility.

[kedrys]

20. Lose it

As long as you can avoid a) going to Huntsville, or b) reams of bullsh*t paperwork.

[Not_Giving_Up]

22. LOL

The question might be, can I avoid UTMB?

[LisaM]

8. Well, we don't know the full death toll yet, really

and of course the number of people horribly injured is much higher (after the WTC attacks, there were not a lot of people who were merely injured - most were either okay, or were killed.) But since our population is roughly six times that of the UK, tell him to just multiply everything by six - so 40 people dead (if that's correct) would be the equivalent of 240 killed here, and 700 wounded (if that's correct) would be the equivalent of 4200 wounded here.

On edit: do any of these people ever use transit systems? You can't measure the result of the fear and trauma something like this imposes. I am beginning to fear that our leadership doesn't care about transit riders.

[northzax]

12. I think that's misleading

comparing country to country. A better figure would be city to city, New York and London are roughly the same size, aren't they?

[Not_Giving_Up]

16. Well, even if you don't compare it that way

It's insensitive to say that this isn't a traumatic event for people in London, just because it's smaller than what happened here in the states.

[northzax]

23. oh indeed

I certainly did not mean to imply that. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when special branch gets their paws on the homicidal maniacs who did this.

[LisaM]

21. Well not everyone in the US was killed in NYC

but I think that 37 people blown up is a huge number anyway. I just meant, if someone doesn't see it as a tragedy because of mere numbers, find a way to try to drive the impact home.

[Not_Giving_Up]

24. How can one NOT view this as a tragedy, though?

I don't get it.

[Not_Giving_Up]

14. I know

For him, as long as the number is small in his mind, it's no big deal.

[aden_nak]

25. Do Iraqis look at 9/11: "What? Is that supposed to be their Gulf War?"

[Not_Giving_Up]

27. Zing!

He would say that's not the same though...That was a War, these are civilians.

[aden_nak]

31. And I would say that Iraq lost a whole lot of civilians in both wars.

Not to you, because I know you know it. But to him.

[Not_Giving_Up]

30. I should also point out that for the last hour or so

He's been playing street racing games on his PS2. Yeah, he's real concerned about what's going on in the world.